Professor Martin Conboy's Publications

Single-authored books in print

Conboy, M. (2010)
The Language of Newspapers: Socio-Historical Approaches.
London: Continuum. pp. 176

Conboy, M. (2007)
The Language of the News.
Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 229

Conboy, M. (2006)
Tabloid Britain: Constructing A Community Through Language.
Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 228

Conboy, M. (2004)
Journalism: A Critical History.
London: Sage. pp. 246

Conboy, M. (2002)
The Press and Popular Culture.
London: Sage. pp. 194

Books in co-edited series Journalism Studies: Key Texts

Cole, P. and Harcup, T. (2010)
Newspaper Journalism.
London: Sage. pp. 223

Crisell, A. and Starkey, G. (2009)
Radio Journalism.
London: Sage. pp 173

Atton, C. and Downing, J. (2008)
Alternative Journalism.
London: Sage. pp 179

Recent chapters in books

Conboy, M. and Steel, J. (2008)
‘The Future of Newspapers: Historical Perspectives’ in B. Franklin (Ed.)
The Future of Newspapers.
Routledge: Abingdon. pp 21-33. (J)

Conboy, M. (2008)
‘The History of Newspaper Journalism’ in W. Donsbach (Ed)
The Blackwells International Encyclopedia of Communication
Vol. 7. pp. 3303-3309.

Conboy, M. (2008)
‘Expanding Ethical Discourse in Wooler’s Black Dwarf’ in R. Keeble (Ed.)
Communication Ethics Now.
Troubadour: Leicester. pp. 142-153.

Conboy, M. (2008)
‘A Tale of Two Battles: History in the Popular Press’ in Nicholas, S., T. O’Malley and K. Williams (Eds.)
Reconstructing the Past: History in the Mass Media 1890-2005.
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. pp. 137-151.

Conboy, M. (2007)
‘Writing and Journalism: Politics, Social Movements and the Public Sphere’ in C. Bazerman, (Ed)
The Handbook of Research on Writing.
Erlbaum. pp. 205-220.

Conboy, M. (2007)
‘The Popular Press: Surviving Postmodernity’ and ‘Integrating Approaches to Contemporary Popular Culture’ reprinted in A. Biressi and H. Nunn (Eds.)
Tabloid Culture: A Reader.
McGraw Hill. Pp. 45-52 and pp. 113-115.

Conboy, M. (2007)
‘Foreword’ in A. Biressi and H. Nunn (Eds.)
Tabloid Culture: A Reader.
McGraw Hill. pp. xv-xvi.

Conboy, M. (2005)
‘Magazine and Newspaper Journalism: An Historical Overview’ in R. Keeble (Ed.)
Magazine and Newspaper Journalism: A Critical Introduction
Routledge. pp. 4-20.

Conboy, M. (2004)
‘Heroes and Demons as Historical Bookmarks in the Popular Press’ in R. Phillips and H. Brocklehurst (Eds.)
History, Nationhood and the Question of Britain
Palgrave. pp. 399-409.

Conboy, M. (2003)
‘Parochialising the Global: Language and the British Tabloid Press’ in J. Aitchison and D. Lewis (Eds.)
New Media Language.
London: Routledge. pp. 45-54.

Recent refereed journal articles

Conboy, M. (2010)
‘The Paradoxes of Journalism History’.
Australian Journalism Review.
32 (1) 5-13.

Conboy, M. and Steel, J. (2010)
‘From “We” to “Me”: The Changing Construction of Popular Tabloid Journalism’.
Journalism Studies.
11 (4). pp. 500-511.

Bingham, A. and Conboy, M. (2009)
‘The Daily Mirror and the Creation of a Commercial Popular Language: A People’s War: A People’s paper?’
Journalism Studies.
10 (5). pp. 624-639.

Conboy, M. (2009)
‘A Parachute of Popularity for a Commodity in Freefall?
Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism.
10 (3) pp. 302-304.

Conboy, M. and Steel, J. (2008)
‘The Future of Journalism: Historical Perspectives’.
Journalism Studies.
(2008) 9 (5). pp. 650-661.

Conboy, M. (2007)
‘A Tale of Two Battles: History in the Popular Press’
Media History
13 (2/3). pp. 257-372.

Conboy, M. (2007)
Guest editor of a special edition of Journalism Studies on the theme of ‘Popular Journalism’
Journalism Studies
Issue 8 (1). pp.173.

Conboy, M. (2007)
‘Permeation and Profusion: Popular Journalism in the New Millennium’
Journalism Studies
8 (1). pp 1-12.

Conboy, M. (2006)
‘Roundtable’ and ‘Response’ on Journalism: A Critical History pp. 329-352
Media History
(12) 3.

Conboy, M. (2006)
‘A Month in The Country: Towards an Ethical Engagement with Tabloid Britain’
Ethical Space: the International Journal of Communication Ethics
3 (1). pp 8-11.

Conboy, M. (2005)
Guest Editor
Ethical Space: The International Journal for Communication Ethics
2 (1). p. 52

Conboy, M. (2005)
“Expanding Ethical Discourse in Wooler’s Black Dwarf”
Ethical Space: The International Journal for Communication Ethics
Vol. 2. No. 1. pp13-19.

Recent reviews in refereed journals

L. Brake and M. Demoor
A Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism (British Library and Academia Press: London and Amsterdam, 2009
Library and Information History
26 (1) 2010 pp. 99-100.

Spencer, D.R. (2007)
The Yellow Journalism Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press
Journalism Studies
9 (1) 2008 pp. 139-140

Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers website
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/730
2008

Haas, T. (2005)
The Pursuit of Public Journalism.
European Journal of Communication
23 (3) 2008 pp. 365-366.

Wiener, J. and Hampton, M. (2007) (eds.)
Anglo-American Media Interactions, 1850-2000.

Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke.
‘A Mediated Affair? Histories of a Special Relationship’
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=14377
H-Net Online April 2008

Campbell, W. J. (2006)
The Year That Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms.
(Fifth Estate Online June, 2007)
Routledge. London.

Winston, B. (2005)
Messages: Free Expression, Media & the West, 1455-1991.
Practice 1 (2) 2007 pp. 299-300.
Routledge. London in Journalism

Tusan, M. (2004)
Women Making News: Gender and the Women's Periodical Press in Britain, University of Illinois Press, Champaign, IL.
Journalism Studies
8 (6) 2007 pp. 974-975

Sloan, B. (2001)
“I Watched A Wild Hog Eat My Baby” A Colourful History of Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact
Jhistory online 2006
New York: Prometheus

Inglis, F. (2002)
‘People’s Witness’, Yale University Press
Sociology
February, 38 (1) 2004 pp. 210-211.

Conboy, M. and Steel, J. (2010)
‘From “We” to “Me”: The Changing Construction of Popular Tabloid Journalism’.
Journalism Studies.
11 (4). pp. 500-511.